Jonah Hex

[Mr. Palmer]

I enjoyed the original DC series, and am having fun with the latest offerings, but never got around to reading Jonah Hex under the Vertigo label.

I've got the three series coming to me in the mail. Give me some early feedback... what can I expect? Exactly how will these be different than the standard DC releases?

[swinebread]

I enjoyed the original DC series, and am having fun with the latest offerings, but never got around to reading Jonah Hex under the Vertigo label.

I've got the three series coming to me in the mail. Give me some early feedback... what can I expect? Exactly how will these be different than the standard DC releases?

Here is a thread about Jonah Hex pertaininng to the review I wrote. The poster mentions one of the Vertigo Hex books.
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=257270

[pigkiller]

Here is a thread about Jonah Hex pertaininng to the review I wrote. The poster mentions one of the Vertigo Hex books.
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=257270

I personally like the the new Jonah Hex way, way better than the vertigo stuff. The writing is better, and with the exception of the two issues that Zuniga pencils, the Art is better.

It's not that I like straight western better than western-horror, I love anything with zombies, and was a little disappointed when I heard the new Jonah Hex was leaving that behind.

That said, the vertigo ones I have from the 90s aren't totally un-enjoyable, but to me they were a little bit of a let down.

[The Confessor]

Well, personally I loved all three of the Vertigo Jonah Hex series. The best of the three stories is probably the first though, 'Two Gun Mojo'.

They were the first Hex stories that I had ever read at the time and I thought they rocked. It's quite different to the present series and the old 70's issues. Basically, what they've done is taken the slight supernatural element that was present in some of those old Weird Western Tales episodes and magnified it a lot!

That's no bad thing though in my opinion. I loved the overtly supernatural element, it made the comic genuinely creepy at times. Another difference is that the Vertigo issues are VERY violent...even by JH standards. Lots of gunshots to the head causing exploding eyes and brains flying everywhere. You know the kind of thing :)

Plus, these comics are really gritty looking, with everyone looking like their covered in dust, dirt and muck the whole time. Which is probably pretty accurate to how life in the old west really was.

Anyway, I hope you will enjoy these comics. They really are pretty cool.

In fact, my only slight gripe about the otherwise excellent current JH series is that I wish they would find a good balance between the standard wild west stories that they tell and the supernatural/horror stories of the Vertigo series. I mean, I wouldn't want Jonah Hex running into zombies and monsters in every issue but peppering the series with them every now and then would be cool.

[Count Vertigo]

Anything with Jonah is A-OK. Even when he was sent to the future in that series "HEX."

It'd be pretty cool to see a Vertigo one shot with El Diablo

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

It's actually a bit of a let down.

I mean it's a good read, but as a Joe R Lansdale fan, I was expecting more.

[Count Vertigo]

I'm digging the new series. As much as I loved the Vertigo ones, I liked the regular western ones more.

[Spastic Minnow]

Anything with Jonah is A-OK. Even when he was sent to the future in that series "HEX."

Then you haven't read "Generation Hex" (Amalgam Comics) or the Superboy issues with the scarred model who rode a giant stone gargoyle and was (or thought she was) possessed by the spirit of Jonah Hex... which I think gave her the power to shoot energy bolts. :o



It'd be pretty cool to see a Vertigo one shot with El Diablo
Azzarello did a Vertigo El Diablo mini series a few years ago. Somewhat forgettable. You know how the recent El Diablo appearance took the Indian Shaman out of the picture? Azzarello's El Diablo also took Lazarus Lane out of the picture, so it was basically just about a mysterious spirit of Vengence dogging a guilty bad guy. I don't remember the details too well though, as I said it was a few years ago and rather forgettable.

[Count Vertigo]

Erk. I remember that Amalgam debacle. Okay, I take back that comment about "anything with Hex." I remember tearing up that Generation Hex comic and tossing it from a moving car in fact.

[No137]

Then you haven't read "Generation Hex" (Amalgam Comics) or

the Superboy issues with the scarred model who rode a giant stone gargoyle and was (or thought she was) possessed by the spirit of Jonah Hex...


I remember Generation Hex, but I never read the Superboy story. Although I probably will regret it, I may read that storyline. Do you know (roughly) where the story can be found?

[Spastic Minnow]

I remember Generation Hex, but I never read the Superboy story. Although I probably will regret it, I may read that storyline. Do you know (roughly) where the story can be found?
I have a checklist in my wallet of Jonah Hex appearences in other comics. My completist bone has been active recently- must have all Hex comics! Good or bad.
Superboy 54-55, 71-75

Neither are stories "about" the Jonah Hex supermodel chick. Just an incedental character in both stories. mercifully I think these are the only comics she's ever appeared in.

[swinebread]

...the Jonah Hex supermodel chick. Just an incedental character in both stories. mercifully I think these are the only comics she's ever appeared in.

Jonah Hex supermodel chick... What? :eek:

[Spastic Minnow]

Jonah Hex supermodel chick... What? :eek:
Yeah, looking though Superboy 54...
A bitchy supermodel named Hex, a bad guy knifes her in the face in a very confusing train of events, the bad guy is shown cutting Superboy, but due to a mix up with a telepath(?) it was actually Hex that was cut... Did I mention that even apart from Hex these comics are awfully written? Anyway, after this when she blacks out she starts talking like Jonah, is an expert marksman and the guns she uses don't have to have ammo to fire. There's also a flying gargoyle, which for no reason she forms an instant connection with.

There's plenty left unexplained about her, which will hopefully never be explained because I don't think anyone wants to ever see supermodel chick Hex ever again.

[Agentum]

Whahahahaha, talk about stupid.
A waste with a character as good as Jonah Hex, almost the only western hero i can read and enjoy.

I'm trying to pick up so many of the 70-80s issues of Hex as i can, some of them was released here in Sweden but there is much more to get.

He had his own mag here for about 4 years and before that he was in a analogy book with other american westerns for 6 years i think.

[Spastic Minnow]

Here's my source for Jonah Hex Apearences. Good page:
http://www.lonely.geek.nz/jonahhex.html

[swinebread]

I have a checklist in my wallet of Jonah Hex appearences in other comics. My completist bone has been active recently- must have all Hex comics! Good or bad.
Superboy 54-55, 71-75

Neither are stories "about" the Jonah Hex supermodel chick. Just an incedental character in both stories. mercifully I think these are the only comics she's ever appeared in.

Wow, I'd rather see an Ambush Bug-Jonah Hex crossover than that. :eek:

[No137]

Thanks for the information, Spastic Minnow.

[No137]

Here's my source for Jonah Hex Apearences. Good page:
http://www.lonely.geek.nz/jonahhex.html


From the above captioned site:


Sales Dip
Fans recently commented on the gradual decline in sales the series has experienced:
11/2005: Jonah Hex #01 - 33,771
12/2005: Jonah Hex #02 - 26,227 (-22.3%)
01/2006: Jonah Hex #03 - 24,671 (- 5.9%)
02/2006: Jonah Hex #04 - 23,569 (- 4.5%)
03/2006: Jonah Hex #05 - 23,496 (- 0.3%)
04/2006: Jonah Hex #06 - 22,763 (- 3.1%)
05/2006: Jonah Hex #07 - 21,910 (- 3.8%)
06/2006: Jonah Hex #08 - 21,006 (- 4.1%)
07/2006: Jonah Hex #09 - 20,385 (- 3.0%)
08/2006: Jonah Hex #10 - 19,772 (- 3.4%)
09/2006: Jonah Hex #11 - 18,957 (- 4.1%)

Since issue 3: -23.2% :: Since first issue -43.9%

Co-writer Jimmy Palmiotti added the following: D.C. comics p.r. department is going to try to push the trade book like hell...so we are happy with that...and maybe the origin of Jonah Hex 3 parter may boost the sales a bit but actually we cannot afford any drop in numbers anymore...and were told so. Time to recommend the book to your friends and family folks.


I hate to hear that. I really enjoy this book.

[Mr. Palmer]

I hate to hear it, too.

However, the past two issues have left me cold. Especially the last issue, which was a blatant rip-off of The Great Silence. I'm going to give the 3-parter a chance, but if the book doesn't pick-up... well, down comes the axe.

[stealthwise]

From the above captioned site:




I hate to hear that. I really enjoy this book.

Dude, where did you get September's month to month analysis? I can't find it anywhere.

[No137]

Dude, where did you get September's month to month analysis? I can't find it anywhere.


It was one the link that Spastic Minnow posted: http://www.lonely.geek.nz/jonahhex.html

The 'lonely geek' site pulled it from another site - the 'lonely geek' sends you there.



[EDIT: Here is the link for the source: http://www.paperfilms.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=2164 ]